page_title: Celtic coinage
section_title: British Celtic coinage
hierarchical_section_title: Celtic coinage / British Celtic coinage
caption_attribution_description: English: Trinovantes
context_page_description: Celtic coinage was minted by the Celts from the late 4th century BC to the late 1st century BC. Celtic coins were influenced by trade with and the supply of mercenaries to the Greeks, and initially copied Greek designs, especially Macedonian coins from the time of Philip II of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great.
  Thus Greek motifs and even letters can be found on various Celtic coins, especially those of southern France.
context_section_description: Traditional historians have tended to overlook the role played by Celtic coinage in the early history of British money. 
  Over 45,000 of the ancient British and Gaulish coins discovered in Britain have been recorded at the Oxford Celtic Coin Index. The Trinovantian tribal oppidum of Camulodunon (modern Colchester) was minting large numbers of coins in the first centuries BC and AD, which have been found across Southern Britain. Common motifs on the Camulodunon coins included horses and wheat/barley sheafs, with the names of the rulers written mostly in Latin script, and more rarely in Greek.
caption: Coin of the Trinovantes minted at Camulodunon.
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